An Act relative to preventing algorithmic rent fixing in the rental housing market
Mass. H.5222State law
Pending bill: An Act relative to preventing algorithmic rent fixing in the rental housing market
Answers the question “Can rent-setting software be used on my rent?”
The source
SOURCE: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5222 RETRIEVED: 2026-10-01 22:36 UTC Bill H.5222 Skip to Content Bill H.5222 194th (Current) Search the Legislature Search the Legislature Search An Act relative to preventing algorithmic rent fixing in the rental housing market View Text Print Preview Download PDF Bill Information Bill Information Sponsor: Joint Committee on Housing Status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means Tabs Bill History Cosponsors Committee Vote Similar Bills Bill History Displaying 3 actions for Bill H.5222 Bill History Date Branch Action 3/12/2026 House…
- Official law
- Open the official source
- Document
- D045, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- Proposed, not law
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- Proposed, not law
What it depends on
- Covers
- Conditions not extracted yet.
- What you can do next
- Read the law at its official source
Audit trail
The model reads the law; code decides who it covers. The line between them stays visible.
Extracted by the model
What the model read from the source text, checked by code (the quote must appear word for word).
- Category
- Rent-setting software
- Requirement
- Pending bill: An Act relative to preventing algorithmic rent fixing in the rental housing market
- Key value
- none
- Effect
- protection_or_duty
- Quote found in source
- yes
- Confidence
- 90%
reasoning boundary
Decided by code
Deterministic: same rules, facts and date give the same answer.
- Jurisdiction: listed only for addresses whose state or legal city is MA.
- Dates: a bill, not law, so it never covers an address yet.
- Coverage: no building condition the data can test; conditions in words stay with the text.
As of Oct 1, 2026Engine run
Sources retrieved Oct 1, 2026.
Which buildings it reaches
All 110 sample addresses in Massachusetts on Oct 1, 2026.
- 110 pending, not law
Every dot is the rule engine’s result for that address. The larger dots are the example addresses listed below. 6 addresses have no coordinates and are counted but not drawn.
Decided by code for the example addresses
On Oct 1, 2026. Rules that don’t apply are left out.
- 471 Columbia Rd, Dorchester: Proposed, not law. Mass. H.5222 is a bill, not law: pending, so it doesn't cover this address yet.
- 134 Oxford St, Cambridge: Proposed, not law. Mass. H.5222 is a bill, not law: pending, so it doesn't cover this address yet.